I have Krita on Suse.
There are some things I prefer the Gimp for, and others for Krita...
How's Kubuntu working out?
Its not I didn't like it to much... im downloading Mandriva "one" 2006 at the moment...
If i dont like that I will go back to Mepis 6 beta3
AHHH! I should have downloaded that and gave it a shot instead of Mandriva... :\